Purpose of the "eyeball"

[dep78737]

Adding the eyeball could be too restrictive with just one return. Personally, I would let this fall into the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" category.

[Rangeball]

Thanks, that's what I was thinking

[famdog]

I believe by pointing the eyeball slightly down and away from the skimmer you get better circular water movement and even more debris from the bottom will be forced up and into the circular water stream and eventually into the skimmer. It also makes a slight vortex in the center of the pool, so that if a LOT of leaves are in the pool, they tend to clump in the center making it easier to scoop all of them at once.

[mbar]

I was just helping my cousin out, and they had their pool resurfaced - it is an old pool and that is exactly how their's is too. It is the way they used to build them - the pool is 40 years old and still beautiful! So I guess it's perfectly fine the way it is.